Google Sheets + Firecrawl Price-Watch Bot 2026: Full Recipe
Firecrawl Google Sheets price monitoring finally works in 2026: build a competitor price-watch bot that beats blocked scrapers and IMPORTXML #N/A errors.
Chapter 1: Why Competitor Price Tracking Broke in 2026 (And What Changed) If you tried to build a competitor price tracker any time before 2024, you probably remember how easy it felt. You right-clicked a product page, hit "View Source," found the price sitting there in plain HTML inside a <span class="price">, and wrote ten lines of Python — or worse, a Google Sheets IMPORTXML formula — that pulled it down every morning. It worked. For about eighteen months. Then it stopped working, all at once, for almost everybody. And most business owners never got a clear explanation of why....